• Patricia Young helped her daughter, 13-year-old Erin Hent, pick out school supplies at the Maplewood Walmart last week. Erin’s love for writing paid off when she was one of 100 area middle school students who won a $100 shopping spree. This was the Westminster Christian Academy eighth grader’s third time in a row winning the retailer’s Back-to-School Shopping Spree essay contest. She wrote about how her school, which already recycles, needs to encourage its surrounding communities to recycle, use less water and to buy LED lights instead of incandescent ones.Walmart matched each winning student’s $100 gift with a donation to KidSmart, a local non-profit that provides school supplies for children in need.

  • Hip-hop star Phife Dawg, of the pioneering group A Tribe Called Quest, came to the STL for a special premiere of Beats, Rhymes and Life Friday night. After a screening of the film that chronicles their meteoric rise to the top of the rap game, Phife kicked it at the Old Rock House for a STL star studded event with several local VIPs, like the lovely Mousie.

  • “I would truly like to thank my soul mate, Wendy L. Anderson, for all the love, for all the belief, for all the sweets, for making me a better man through time and making a better us in the hearts and mind. Happy Anniversary! I love you!” -Antoine D. Anderson

  • Khala Frances McDonald has received a four-year, $40,000 scholarship from the NSF Biology Scholars Program, Div. of Biological Sciences. She is a 2011 graduate of Hazelwood Central High and the daughter of Charles & Patsy G. McDonald III of Florissant. Khala will attend the University of MO–Columbia. Her goal is to become an Obstetrician. 

  • Beatrice Davis will celebrate her 91st birthday on August 11, 2011.

    “Grateful to God for another birthday!”

     

  • Katie Mae Dunn-Lewis will celebrate her 90th birthday on Sunday, August 14 at the Heart of St. Charles with a host of family and friends. She is a 35-year member of New Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church and has put her trust in the Lord. She is the mother of 10 children, grandmother of 30, great-grandmother of 66, great-great-grandmother of 30, and great-great-great grandmother of 1.

  • Rollyn Moore

  • The Rev. Dr. Howard Creecy Jr., who led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as president for just seven months, died July 28 of an apparent heart attack. He was 57.

  • St. Louis native director Millicent Shelton (right) with actors Rebecca Crews and Terry Crews at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards March 4 in Los Angeles.

  • Abesi Manyando (with male friend) is writing a feature on Sade’s world tour for F.A.B. Magazine, an African-centered lifestyle and fashion magazine.

  • Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer in a scene from the new film “The Help”
  • Local filmmaker showcase features movies on hearts and games
  • Local filmmaker showcase features movies on hearts and games
  • Local filmmaker showcase features movies on hearts and games

  • Judge Mike Wolff (third from right) wrote a spirited separate (but concurring) opinion to his colleagues on the Missouri Supreme Court’s recent ruling on an appeal. Two taxpayers appealed a lower court’s rejection of a petition that challenged the legality of state tax credits issued to Paul McKee Jr.’s Northside Regeneration project.

  • Ben Edwards

  • Alderman Antonio D. French led a press conference Tuesday at the 21st Ward’s new police substation to describe his new security camera program.

  • St. Louis Drug Court Commissioner Michael Noble accepts an award at the National Association of Drug Court Professionals annual conference in Washington, D.C.

  • Students and parents try out the creative video games that Youth Learning Center’s students produced at this year’s Summer Discovery Academy. During the summer session, students created computer animations of short stories they wrote, created their own video games and built their own robotic creations. This year, 100 children attended the summer academy. The Missouri Accreditation of Programs for Children and Youth recently accredited all of YLC’s educational programs.

  • James Clark, Better Family Life’s vice president of Community

    Outreach, explained BFL’s Amnesty Program to people seeking relief from bench warrants for misdemeanor violations Saturday at St. Louis Community College-Meramec.

  • Tony Thompson

  • Marshall Faulk was presented his Hall of Fame jacket by his agent and longtime friend Rocky Arceneaux. In the history of the Hall, only three agents have ever presented a jacket to a player.

  • Jabari Whitt, age 3, and Adrian Leveritt, age 2, beat the heat with snow cones recently at the Keeping Our Children Safe National Night Out event hosted by People’s Health Centers at its Delmar location.

  • Members of the three metropolitan chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. held their 5th Annual Health Fair, “Living Healthy Today for a Better tomorrow,”  on August 6 at the Monsanto YMCA, 5555 Page Blvd.

  • The National Association of Black Accountants recently concluded its Accounting Career Awareness Program at Harris-Stowe State University.

  • Tom Bailey with his family at the 2011 MBE Black Party: Shannon Bailey, daughter; Tom Bailey; Sydney Bailey, daughter; Graham Bailey, son; Kathleen Bailey sister; and Rose Blair, cousin.

  • Team Rameybasketball’s 11U boys team concluded a great summer by finishing seventh at the recent Amateur Athletic Union Division I National Tournament in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Rameybasketball finished the season with a 96-13 record and 15 tournament championships.

    The team members are: (front row)Kameron Bowdry, Mario Rowland, Brenden Boyd, Deante Graham, Carteare Gordon. (Second Row)Larrion Heard, Terrell Ramey, head coach, Courtney Ramey, Rickey Guinn, McKyan James, Elijah Dudley, Caleb Brooks, Deandre Campbell. Not pictured, assistant coaches Brent Segree, Charlie Bean

  • Floyd “Money” Mayweather recently told fighthype.com that if St. Louis boxer Devon Alexander is free from his contractual obligations to Don King Productions, “I want to sign him.”

  • Dangerous” Dannie Williams and Antwone “The Truth” Smith (pictured) are two bruisers on Rumble Time Promotions card at the Ameristar Casino tomorrow, which will be broadcast on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights.

  • “Dangerous” Dannie Williams (pictured) and Antwone “The Truth” Smith are two bruisers on Rumble Time Promotions card at the Ameristar Casino tomorrow, which will be broadcast on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights.

  • Pastor B.T. Rice
  • Rhonda Brandon
  • Erica Freeman
  • Lina Young

  • Jeff White, Town & Country Masonry; Thomas Nellums, MOKAN board chairman; Yaphett El-Amin, MOKAN executive director; Mike Harris, E.M. Harris Construction founder and CEO; and Robert “Bobby” Guy, MOKAN board member

  • Leslie T. Broadnax

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